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Franz Liszt

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Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.


— Franz Liszt


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Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.


— Franz Liszt


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Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light.


— Franz Liszt


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The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist.


— Franz Liszt


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The public is always good.


— Franz Liszt


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We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm.


— Franz Liszt


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Without any assistance whatever, I founded a school in Weimar in 10 years. Only I could perform certain works with the scanty means that I dared not ask anyone else to work with.


— Franz Liszt


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I conclude that the Wagnerian operas which are already in the repertoire, and other masterworks as well, stand in no further need of my services.


— Franz Liszt


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Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless.


— Franz Liszt


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About Franz Liszt

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Did you know about Franz Liszt?

Together with Liszt's student Franz Servais Franz Liszt first went to Belgium where Franz Liszt gave concerts which were brilliant successes. He had introduced himself by playing Thalberg's Fantasy Op. He found it at the monastery Madonna del Rosario just outside Rome where on June 20 1863 he took up quarters in a small Spartan apartment.

He left behind an extensive and diverse body of work in which he influenced his forward-looking contemporaries and anticipated some 20th-century ideas and trends. Liszt was also a well-known and influential composer piano teacher and conductor. He was said by his contemporaries to have been the most technically advanced pianist of his age and in the 1840s he was considered by some to be perhaps the greatest pianist of all time.

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